Partnerships in Marine Research

Case Studies, Lessons Learned, and Policy Implications

1st Edition - December 1, 2021
Editors: Guillermo Auad, Francis K. Wiese
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 4 2 7 - 8
eBook ISBN:
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Partnerships in Marine Research: Case Studies, Lessons Learned, and Policy Implications provides a thorough assessment of this important approach to Marine Research. It starts by looking at the problems faced by scientists as they conduct investigations within Marine Research; it then leads into case studies where partnerships have been successful and concludes with the ultimate intended outcomes for this approach. Through these sections of the book, an experience-based framework for sustainable partnerships and science is introduced, including some key elements identifiable in the case studies presented. Elements of the framework are implicitly present in each of the case studies, including four key elements: flexibility of the partnership system, diversity (of partners and functions), redundancy, and connectivity. These four elements are important aspects of the partnership resilience and crucial to sustain and to achieve its goals.

Partnerships in Marine Research guides the sustainable planning and implementation of future ocean science and technology projects, and provides a fundamental tool for researchers, engineers, and decision makers involved in collaborative Marine Research.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
About the editors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Motivations to partner
History of partnerships in marine research
Life phases in partnering
Case studies of marine research partnerships
Acknowledgment
Chapter 1. The Bering Sea Project
Introduction
Background
Building the partnership
Program implementation
Program management
Program findings
Sustainability
Lessons learned
Conclusions
Chapter 2. Belmont Forum partnerships
Introduction
Partnership processes
Implementing the partnerships
Outcomes and lessons learned
Chapter 3. The Nansen Legacy: pioneering research beyond the present ice edge of the Arctic Ocean
Introduction
Background
Norway's Arctic future?
First steps toward the Nansen Legacy project and goals
Challenges and activities
Presenting the plan to industry and international partners
Quality control of the research plan
Funding the Nansen Legacy project
Recruitment for a sustainable Arctic future
The significance of cooperation, division of labor, and focus for solving grand national and international research questions
Lessons learned?
How will the future Arctic look like and how should we adapt to research efforts?
Chapter 4. The Argo Program
Introduction
Argo's roots in WOCE
The formation of Argo's multi-national partnership
Implementation of the global Argo array
International governance: Argo and JCOMM
The Argo data management system
The sustainability of Argo
Conclusion
Chapter 5. The Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study partnership: planning, implementation and lessons learned
Introduction
Project planning
Project implementation
Lessons learned
Conclusions
Chapter 6. Partnering with the public: The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team
Introduction
Marine citizen science
COASST as a case study
Motivation to start the program
Organizational evolution
Lessons learned
Conclusion - partnerships in citizen science
Chapter 7. Long-term sustainability of ecological monitoring: perspectives from the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network
Introduction
Foundations of MARINe
Sustainable practices
Strengths of the partnership
Chapter 8. Deep-water study partnership: characterizing and understanding the ecological role of deep corals and chemosynthetic communities in the Gulf of Mexico and northwest Atlantic
Introduction
Partnering agency introductions
Chemo III
Lophelia II
Atlantic Canyons
Summary comments
Chapter 9. Adaptation to repetitive flooding: expanding inventories of possibility through the co-production of knowledge
Introduction/background
Project setup and goals
Project implementation
Ongoing lessons
Conclusion: a more collaborative science
Chapter 10. Lessons learned from nine partnerships in marine research
Introduction
Analysis
Resilience and sustainability of partnerships
Conclusions
Chapter 11. Research partnerships and policies: a dynamic and evolving nexus
Introduction
Research policies and partnerships
Case studies
Policy sources and impacts
The future of research policies
Recommendations for research policies
Chapter 12. Global marine biodiversity partnership
Preface
Introduction
Fertile Ground
The Partnership
Operational Phase
Epilogue
Index

Guillermo Auad

Dr. Guillermo Auad is the Senior Research Coordinator and a Science Advisor at the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Earlier, he was the chief of the physical and chemical sciences branch at the Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Before 2010 and for over a decade, he was a faculty member at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and an Adjunct Professor of Oceanography at Palomar College. He has created national and international partnerships including an award-winning project between the United States and Canada on Arctic marine ecosystems as well as multi-nation partnerships addressing ocean sustainability, through the Belmont Forum. He was one of the US Government lead reviewers of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and a contributing author to the Third National Climate Assessment. Since 2010, he has focused on project management of different interdisciplinary studies used to inform decisions on offshore energy. Dr. Auad has co-authored national policies on Arctic research and several publications ranging from multidisciplinary studies using observations and models, to the application of socio-ecological resilience concepts for effective resource management and adaptation. He received his PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Affiliations and expertise

Guillermo Auad, US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Sterling, VA, USA.

Francis K. Wiese

Dr. Francis Wiese is a Senior Principal within Stantec’s Environmental Services Group and serves as Stantec’s Technical Leader for Marine Research. Francis brings 28 years of experience working in the coastal and marine environment throughout the world, designing, implementing, and managing large interdisciplinary, multi-institutional science programs in the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico, with additional experience in the North Sea, Caribbean, Antarctic, and the Galapagos. Dr. Wiese has worked for and with academia, government, nonprofits, and industry, is a technical reviewer for over 20 international journals, and serves on a variety of national and international science panels, committees, and working groups. He has extensively focused on environmental impacts as a result of anthropogenic stressors, climate change, socio-ecological resiliency, system science, marine spatial planning, coastal erosion, marine shipping, environmental policy, and adaptive management. He recently contributed a book chapter focused on a vision for a sustainable Arctic, integrating key global steps across society that are needed to reach such a future. Francis believes that collaboration and communication is key and as such is a prolific public speaker that enjoys thinking outside the box to solve complex real-world issues. Dr. Wiese earned his PhD in Conservation Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Affiliations and expertise

Stantec Consulting Services Inc., Anchorage, AK, USA